Thorongil was the name that Aragorn used when he was younger to fight alongside the lords of Rohan and Gondor. As you can see Shadow & Flame have done some great work bringing this miniature to life and tying it into the aesthetic for the Rohirrim that the films went for.

The facial details are also recognisably Aragorn and I could certainly see this being a younger version of him. Of course these kind of sculpts aren’t going to be on sale but if you’re interested in getting a conversion sculpted up then these guys have some serious skills.

Interestingly Games Workshop DID make a model for Thorongil (here also painted by Shadow & Flame)…

I think that they’ve done a great job of keeping it in line with the design, as mentioned above, and this could be the kind of the thing that we could see from the new Middle-Earth studio from Games Workshop.

What do you think?

"Thorongil was the name that Aragorn used when he was younger to fight alongside the lords of Rohan and Gondor..."

‘Specialist game’ is a meaningless catch-all term that was given to the games that went online only and stopped being supported. It’s being resurrected as an easy short-hand for a new raft of online games designed by a studio which is separate from the main GW studio. LotR was slowly going online-only anyway. Now they’re going to be dealt with by their own small team of staff within that umbrella.

As for solid links, the communication from Kevin Rountree and the job vacancies for the new project manager and sculptor are out there somewhere. If I get a chance later I’ll dig them out.